In partnership with Eagle Harbor Books, BIMA celebrates the latest publications of acclaimed writers Sasha LaPointe and Tayi Tibble in a reading with audience Q&A moderated by island writer B.L. Crook.

More info here: https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/curated-conversations-sasha-lapointe-tayi-tibble/

You are invited to join us as we commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the forced removal of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island. This year’s theme is “Teach the Children.”

LOCATION: Exclusion Memorial, 4195 Eagle Harbor Drive NE, Bainbridge Island

More info here: https://bijaema.org/event/commemoration-of-the-82nd-anniversary-of-the-exclusion/

THE EVENT: Join us at BIMA to be empowered by poetry from: Roberto Ascalon, award-winning Seattle slam artist, Bainbridge Poet Laureate Michele Bombardier, student poets and more. We will be raising funds through tickets and a silent auction of student art!

OUR CAUSE: To support the Maternal Center of Excellence, a maternal hospital that is addressing the incredibly high maternal mortality rate in Sierra Leone and is teaching the next generation of healthcare professionals.

https://sites.google.com/view/bainbridgeyouthpihe/partners-in-poetry-2024?authuser=0

Join us at the Bainbridge Public Library for our monthly Open Mic event! Hosted by our own poet laureate, Michele Bombardier, with guest speaker Linda Bierds!

Linda Bierds has published ten books of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, and Best American Poetry. Her awards include recognition from the NEA, The Guggenheim Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

• Wine, tea, and cookies will be served.

• Sign up at 6:45. Please keep readings to four minutes or less.* All arer welcome to this free event, ages 14+.

Location: Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave N Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

“Harjo’s poetry is celebrated for its insightful attention to the spiritual and natural worlds. In lines that can be deceptively simple or strikingly complex, she often explores the persistence of myth in contemporary experience.” – The Washington Post

We’re excited to partner with Seattle Arts and Lectures to present Joy Harjo, an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022, the first Native American to receive the honor, and she is the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

Harjo has written ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior.

Register here: https://www.humanities.org/event/joy-harjo/

Presented by Washington Humanioties. Co-presented with Seattle Arts and Lectures.

Join us for an evening of poetry with guest reader Kevin Craft and our very own poet laureate, Michele Bombardier! Sign up opens at 6:45pm, ages 14+. Wine, cookies, and warm beverages served.

"Award-winning poet Kevin Craft is the author of three books of poetry. He directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College and has been the faculty director of the UW’s Writers in Rome Program. Kevin has earned numerous fellowships and awards and served as the editor of Poetry Northwest for many years. He is serves as Executive Editor of Poetry NW Editions.”

Location: Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

VALENTINE’S DAY

14 Poets + 28 Love Poems

Wednesday, February 14, 7pm

The Chapel, Fort Worden Way Port Townsend, Washington

A Valentine’s Day poetry extravaganza with fourteen poets + twenty-eight love poems. Sweets for the sweet. Admission by donation, $10 suggested or whatever you can offer. Free parking.

More information here: https://poetrysalishsea.com/poss_events.html

This is an ONLINE EVENT featuring Mary Pan, Stephanie Cooper, and Michele Bombardier.

Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Pinch, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops, retreats, and residencies with Tin House, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review, and Centrum, and is a Harvard Media & Medicine alum. The recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust Grants for Artists’ Projects Literary Award, she was runner-up for AWP’s 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is currently working on a memoir in lyrical essays exploring mental illness, caregiving, and retrospective becoming.

Stephanie Cooper, M.D., believes that stories are the currency of human experience. Before she was a doctor, she was a journalist, using the written word to bring voice and awareness to human interest and environmental stories. She conceptualized and taught “Mind, Body, and Pen: Writing and the Art of Becoming a Physician.” She has facilitated several Narrative Medicine workshops at University of Washington for both residents and faculty members and Stephanie attended the Masters in Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University. She is currently an Emergency Medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente in Seattle, Washington, and a mother of two vibrant boys who love a good story.

Michele Bombardier is the author of What We Do, a Washington Book Award finalist. Before returning to graduate school for her MFA in poetry, Michele worked as a SLP in hospitals and in her own clinic specializing in neurological disorders. Her work has appeared in JAMA, Bellevue Literary Review, Parabola, Crab Creek Review, and many others. She is a Hedgebrook fellow, the founder of Fishplate Poetry, and the inaugural poet laureate of Bainbridge Island.

Join this virtual event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/311171318532636/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%7D